The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftMethuen, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page 45
... entire five pieces must be taken together , and when they are it is clear to what degree Swift is con- scious of his spiritual independence . More than that , he is responsive to the new environment and comes to centre his concept of ...
... entire five pieces must be taken together , and when they are it is clear to what degree Swift is con- scious of his spiritual independence . More than that , he is responsive to the new environment and comes to centre his concept of ...
Page 138
... entire previous history : threatened with a return of a church - state they became increasingly Erastian , extremists like Hoadly describing a state - church in which other powers almost vanished before political authority . Swift's ...
... entire previous history : threatened with a return of a church - state they became increasingly Erastian , extremists like Hoadly describing a state - church in which other powers almost vanished before political authority . Swift's ...
Page 309
... entire Utopian sketch as a sly dig at those writers given to creating impossibly ideal societies ? Probably not . Swift had merely manœuvred himself into an awkward position by embodying early mate- rial now standing in contradiction to ...
... entire Utopian sketch as a sly dig at those writers given to creating impossibly ideal societies ? Probably not . Swift had merely manœuvred himself into an awkward position by embodying early mate- rial now standing in contradiction to ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
YEARS OF ACTIVITY AND SUSPENSE | 101 |
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